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Buck Clayton chronology. Swingin' with Pee Wee. (1960) Goin'to Kansas City. (1960) Buck & Buddy. (1960) Goin' to Kansas City is an album by American jazz trumpeter Buck Clayton with Tommy Gwaltney 's Kansas City 9 featuring tracks recorded in late 1960 for the Riverside label. [1] [2]
The Legend. (1961) Count Basie and the Kansas City 7. (1962) Easin' It. (1962) Count Basie and the Kansas City 7 is an album by American jazz bandleader and pianist Count Basie featuring small group performances recorded in 1962 for the Impulse! label. [1]
Source. Rating. Allmusic. [1] The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings. [2] Three Windows is an album by American jazz group the Modern Jazz Quartet featuring performances recorded with the New York Chamber Symphony in 1987 and released on the Atlantic label. [3]
Kansas City has had teams in all five of the major professional sports leagues; three major league teams remain today. The Kansas City Royals of Major League Baseball became the first American League expansion team to reach the playoffs (), to reach the World Series (), and to win the World Series (1985; against the state-rival St. Louis Cardinals in the "Show-Me Series").
Municipal Auditorium was the first building built as part of the "Ten-Year Plan", a bond program that passed by a 4 to 1 margin in 1931. The campaign was run by the Civic Improvement Committee chaired by Conrad H. Mann. Other buildings in the plan included the Kansas City City Hall and the Kansas City branch of the Jackson County Courthouse.
Lester Young. " Lester Leaps In " is a jazz standard originally recorded by Count Basie 's Kansas City Seven in 1939. [1] The composition, credited to the group's tenor saxophone player Lester Young, is a contrafact based on the chord progression of " I Got Rhythm ", and serves as a vehicle for interweaving solos by Young and Basie.
18th and Vine is a neighborhood of Kansas City, Missouri. It is internationally recognized as a historical point of origin of jazz music and a historic hub of African-American businesses. Along with Basin Street in New Orleans, Beale Street in Memphis, 52nd Street in New York City, and Central Avenue in Los Angeles, the 18th and Vine area ...
Kansas City (Leiber and Stoller song) " Kansas City " is a rhythm and blues song written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller in 1952. [1] First recorded by Little Willie Littlefield the same year, as "K. C. Loving", the song later became a chart-topping hit when it was recorded by Wilbert Harrison in 1959. "Kansas City" is one of Leiber and ...